ninsula Realty Association.
(Continued from first page)
were converted into bearing orch
ards nud berry fields. Then in the
sale of the fruit these lads displayed
the same keen judgment they did
in the development of their valley.
They sent samples of their fruit to
the larger markets, sent exhibits to
till the shows, put up in the finest
possible condition so as to present n
perfect nppearauce. This won
every pric for which they con
tended. They then told every
man, woman and child the world
over, who could read, just what
they were producing in Hood
Kivcr. They did this not only
once but did so continuously until
Hood River became n household
word in every nation on earth and
is today more widely and generally
known to the outside world than is
Portland.
Now, what Hood River has done
in horticulture, the Peninsula may
do in the matter of commerce
nud manufacture. Hood Kivcr is
no more favorably situated for her
industries than is the Peninsula for
its interests. The thing for the
really men, who are the "swamp
ers" in advance of the tinny of
home makers, to do, is to adver
tise to the entire world just the
facts about the superiority of the
Peninsula as a home section and
manufacturing center. Do this
persistently and thoroughly. Let
the wot Id know that this is the
logical point to which all commerce
from the great Inland Kinplre of
the Paeilic Northwest is coming.
This can be done at a small ex
pense to all if these realty men join
together as did the fruit growers in
the Apple City. The first step has
heeu made. It is now up to the
runlly dealers who have not yet
taken mi'inliersiiip with the associa
tion to make investigation, and if
they find conditions satisfactory,
join (lie Miucli and unite all the en-
urxies and ingenuity of the hustlers
of the entire Peninsula in a deter
mined effort to place this favored
.section rightly before the people
who are looking for the liesl place
on earth to make an hi vestment.
The iiHKOciatiou cherishes a sin
cere feeling of gratefulness to the
kind-hearted, energetic and pro
gressive ladies of the Peninsula for
their geiietous donations of carloads
of roses, many thousands of which
were distributed to the visitors
along with these booklets.
The success of the organization
is especially due to the faithfulness,
energy ami persistent efforts of
A. V. H.iglcy, It. 0. Uraud,
W. II. King, John II. Noltu, W. J.
Poddieoril, J. J. Walter and others
who spated not time, inconvenience
or expense to make a winner of the
proposition iiiiii they succeeded be
yond their expectations. There
were some mistakes which resulted
in disappointment, but the men in
this institution are cheerful losers
anil came up smiling at their last
meeting nud acknowledged the
corn; declaring that the lessons
learned by the one or two little
failure! in some of their plans more
than compensated them for their
losses caused thereby. They are
aheaily planning for next year's
ctiuipiiigu ami will be on the
ground lloor with hetter equipment
lor tulveitisiug tlie reiiliisithi than
this year nud will undoubtedly
place this teiritory in a most favor
able light befoie the public. We
tniHt every leal estate man on the
Peniiuitila will identify himself with
the association.
The names of the members of the
association to date are:
Uraud, K. 0., (Smith's Cross
ing) mail 2076 Portsmouth nve.,
I'oitlaud.
llrong-ritttcle Co., 110 Second St.,
Portland.
Haglc), A. W Portsmouth, Ore.
Cobb, 0. A., Swctlaud bid.,
17.(3 Portsmouth nve., Portland.
Colviu, 1. K., St. Johns, Ore.
I'latur, W. II., 1157 Williams
uvu., Portland.
GtiuiUtulT, W. II., Uoddnrd Sta
tion. Hickman, R. I,., Van lloiitou
nve., Portland.
Hills, J. 1'., fii Williams nve.,
Pot Hand.
Klne& ailmore, St. Johns, Ore.
Killtughworth, Win., 1 00111 323
Chamber ot Comuieice, Portland.
Kennedy, G. W., 604 Dawson,
Umvotslty Park.
Meiicfee, J. II. & Co., r.j Uns
mil St., Portland.
Nolta & Haughttiau, 116 Kil
liugsworth uve., Portland,
Poddicotd, W. J., 333 Mohawk
bid., UuivetMty Park.
Ruble, H. A., Denver and Kil
lingnworth nve.
ReiUi, lf. W., 915 Williams uve.,
Portland.
Summit luveottnuut Co.. 153
KilliugswotUi ave., Pottlnud.
Stafford-Gipsuu Realty Co., 1 165
Commercial, i'oitlaud.
St. Johns I.aud Co., St. Johns.
St. Johns Title ami Abstract Co.,
St. Johns.
Sibray & Hart, 6S4 Dawson,
University Park.
Swan, K., 1150 Union ave.,
Portland.
Smith, I.eroy H., St. Johns.
Thompson & Ogden, S.o Miss
issippi nve., Poitliiud.
Walter & Giegory, 1000 Wil
liams nve., Portland.
Zygowski, C. A., 1322 Vilard
aye., Portland.
The following are the papers is
sued ill the form of a booklet by
the association and distributed dur
iug tlie Rose Carnival:
THE PENINSULA
A Suburb of Portland, Oregon
iiv w. j. rnnniconn
In his prlzc-winnliiK nnd incomparable
story of Portland, Dr. John Roach Straton,
of Baltimore, Md., says: "Portland has
been called 'the New York of the Pacific,'
and it is nn apt designation. She is re
markably like the eastern metropolis in
several particulars. Portland lies on the
shores of the Willamette River, just above
tli c confluence with the Columbia, The
great tongue of land between the Willam
ette and Columbia, running thence down
to a point at their intersection, is strikingly
like .Manhattan Island. On the west bank
of the Willamette, representing Ilrooklyn,
now stands the business center of Port
laud. Across the river, on this second Man
hattan, is 'East Portland,' spreading every
nay onward and downward until it will
finally reach the Columbia and face the city
of Vancouver, now resting on the north
side of that r vcr in the same relative no
sllion which Jersey City sustains to New
York." Using Mr. II. W. Scott's impress
ive illustration, he further says: "Take a
topographical map 01 North America and
draw a line from Lower California to Mt.
St, Elias in Alaska, and you will find that
your line follows a natural depression be
tween mountain ranges auout 100 miles
hack from the coast in Oregon. Now draw
another line at ritilit anulcs cast and west,
following the coast of the Columbia River
the only navigable stream that breaks
through the inland mountain walls. This
line will also follow a natural depression,
with a gradual descent, from near I.cwlston,
Idaho, to the mouth 01 the Columbia. Now
Portland is situated Just at the point where
your north nnd south and cast nnd west
lines cross cacn other, nc nns, mere
fore, downgrade relationship to her lin
incline supporting territory. This situation
iiniincslionalily gives her an ndvnutagc
...I ' I. ...Ill ?..-.!! !.- I I.. it...
which win niiaiiy iii.ikc iicr nurciuc in mc
Northwest."
Now "the great tongue of land" so "strik-
iiiKlv like Manhattan Island" is the renin
siila, of which wc shall now tell you some
thing that will aid in convincing impartial
Judges of our wonderful city that as cer
tainly ns the great city of New York was
built on Manhattan Island, so certainly will
.1 great city he built oil the Peninsula, "this
second Manhattan."
Pirst The above remarkably significant
lines, if drawn ns indicated, will locate Port
laud of the future on the Peninsula.
Second While ocean vessels carry trade,
in the nhsence of railroads, ns far Inland at
first ns possible, the city thus located grows
down stream wherever possible ever alter
by natural law.
Third With n topography suitable for a
great city nnd with the same chorography
and resources hack of it that our city
proper now has, the Peninsula has, counting
the two great rivers and their deep cut
offs, more than fifty miles of available
water front along n "tongue of land" not
more than ten miles long nud averaging
not more than three miles in width, in
chilling the islands nnd cut-offs of the
mighty Columbia.
Fourth Already three great traus-coutl-iicntal
railroad lines arc actually being con
structed and crossing ami recrossing 011 the
Columbia side of tins Peninsula, with one
as a belt line entirely around it, thus afford
lug excellent sites for untold manufacture.
Fifth Time, capitnl nnd far-seeing in
vestors will construct mighty docks along
her water front, her deep-sea going ves
sels will discharge their cari'ocs for the
interior of Washington nud Oregon and
even the far Fast, nud take on the products
ol the Inland r.inmrc lor the Uncut.
Sixth There is so much good wntcr
front bordering on the Peninsula that pro
hibilivc prices cannot soon obtain.
Seventh From the very topography of
the Peninsula the mills nud factories can
never encroach on her beautiful, healthful
nnd most sightly residence district.
Khthth- The greater part of the Peuiu
suln being already in the limits of the city
of Portland, like n strong' nud healthy
young child that has nil the elements of
litlurc greatness in it, it is constantly, while
yet young, drawing nourishment from tlie
maternal breast of the queen-mother, The
City of Roses; for it boasts the same schools
of learning, the same excellent library, art
nuist'itm, park system, the same pure, cool,
sparkling water, from the heaven-kissed
snows on the silent summit of "Old Hood;"
the same car, telephone and electric light
service, and the same municipal govern
ment, with many ot the advantages and few
of the disadvantages of the city proper,
Ninth The present inundation of the
Tenth ward of the city of Portland, which
is 011 the I'enmsula, nud ol at. Johns, wlncli
is nUo on the Peninsula, is, together, al
ready greater than the entire population of
Portland after nearly forty years of her ex
istence. Tenth I he very thing that will make
Portland "Supreme in the Northwest" will
eventually make the Peninsula supreme in
Portland. The great advantages of a water-
grade to Portland will be more telling for
our great metropolis when freight rates are
cut by competition to n minimum, as they
will be when the Panama Canal is open to
the world, than when rates on "competing''
lines are high. I hen 11 will be that the
slightest (inference in favor of the water
grade and against the great nud fatal hoist
over the Cascades to our fair rivals on the
north will send the mighty volume of traffic
from Idaho. Eastern Washington and Ore
gon sweeping down to Portland, seeking an
outlet to the markets of the world, just ns
the Columbia seeks the mighty ocean
through this same gateway. Even now her
growth is almost phenomenal, although
commissions must sometimes he invoked to
adjust oppressive rates. Chauuccy Thomas
is minted by Dr. .Straton, in his pric story
of Portland, as saying: "There is an em
bargo of one thousand dollars on every
train load crossing those mountains as
against a water-grade haul down the Co
lumbia." Mr. II. W. Scott, editor of The
Morning Orcgonlan for more than fifty
years, says, in his "History of Portland
(1KDU), "Any road which can persistently
carry merchandise at one cent per hundred
or even per ton less than its rivals will
bent them in the long run." Well, Portland
is in for "the long run," and from the very
day the trans-continental lines adjust their
rates 111 anticipation of the opening of the
Panama Canal she will begin to feel a new
thrill of life. I.ow rates by water means
lower rates trans-continent, which also
means lower rates for the interior, not onlv
because of nn open river, but also because
the people will not long suffer dispropor
tionate rates to obtain, Then will it be
that the close margin on fremht. the in-
creased production in the interior through
increased population and irrigation recla
mation and other causes begin to tell for
Portland in a geometric ratio. Then will
the willful blind be made to sec that no mis
take has been made in the location for a
great city, a city that shall be known
throughout the nations of the world for her
commercial supremacy and her priceless
attractions. Then will it be seen that the
most sanguine of today have fallen far be
low the mark in their most extravaeant tire-
dictions. And this will he no less true of
the Peninsula, even more so.
Eleventh Not only close observers of
today concede that a great city is destined
to he built on the Peninsula, but, accord
ing to the eminent authority we have iust
quoted, Mr. Scott, the early English pre
ferred the south bank, and would have
built Vancouver here had it not been, first,
that the immediate south bank is not suit
able for a city, nnd, second, "if they had not
anticipated that England would not secure
the south bank." Tlie generous concession
of Mr. Scott is, in writing of Portland,
"Although on the banks of the Willamette,
she is also practically on the banks of the
Columbia, her business portion constantly
extending towards the imperial river."
Twelfth The altitude, the soil, the drain
age, the salubrity, the level stretch of gently
sloping area, and the charming scenery of
nn cncnaming inuuiiiam range in mc
dreamy, delusive distance, make this an
ideal spot for a great city, iruiy "Si quae
ris neninsulam amocnam, circumsplce,"
Wc arc truly proud of Portland, prouder
to know her simnlv as Portland, plain.
familiar, dear, old Portland, the City of
Roses, than if she were daily called by
her admiring visitors "The New York of
the Pacific;" proud to know her as the
City licautiful, a city of the living present,
and the glories ol whose future seem to
make her very heart throbs audible in
happy anticipation of still greater achieve
ments; prouder of her imperial sway nnd
destiny in the vast and ever-expanding
realms of commerce, intelligence and civic
pride, than if she had treasured up for imper
ishable fame the proud, pathetic title, "Lone
Mother of Dead Empires." Truly, Destiny
has depleted greatness in her every linea
ment. She will expand in all meritorious
ways and she will expand In nil directions,
but her greatest expansion will hereafter
be down the beautiful Willamette and in
the direction of "the imperial river" on her
north ns surely as the laws of Nature arc
more inexorable than the laws of man. It
is the same law that brought her up ns a
child from the mouth of the Columbia, from
St. Helens nnd from Vancouver nnd set her
ashore on Overton's claim at the foot of
"The Heights, ' And could the obstructions
to navigation and railways have been as
easily overcome by the science of engineer
ing in 1815 as in 1008, it is not assuming too
much to say Overton's claim of rich alluvial
soil would today be a China garden, daily
furnishing car loads of crisp, white vegeta
bles for the hundreds of thousands who
would now be residing in the beautiful
homes down on the Peninsula. It Is not the
Hipping of the penny by Lovcjoy and Petty-
cove that made Portland; it was the same
inexorable laws in force then that will make
the Peninsula urcat in the rapidly on-com
ing years when there will be "flipping" of
millions by the "laplains of industry ' all
nlong her more than lilty miles of water
front. In conclusion, though wc have given
strong reasons for our faith in the wonder
ful future of the Peninsula, wc arc far from
wishing to convey the Idea, even by impli
cation, that the great Portland to the south
of us will soon, or is ever to be. "simply a
gang-plank" to the Peninsula; or that she
will ever so lose prestige that she will
again be what History says she once was
n stopping place for parties on the river to
land for a mid-day meal on their way to
Oregon City." Far from it! When I think
of this fair City of Roses, the City beauti
ful, even with its imperfections never to be
wholly overcome, think of her as the home
of so many noble men ami women, ucautuui
childhood, nnd the mnny intelligent nnd
determined young men nud young ladies, in
whose "bright Lexicon of youth" they never
wrote such n word ns fail, when I think of
her as the home of my good friends and
neighbors, the home of my wife nnd boys,
nud when I contemplate the indisputable
elements of her future greatness, her right
ful supremacy once for nil nnd at no very
distant day, among the great cities of the
Northwest, fancy and reason soon paint for
mc alone n picture that makes my bosom
swell with pride nud love, and my heart's
pantiugs find best expressions in the inspir
ing day-dream of Ur. btralou "that after-
noon as lie stood on the lofty uaru-won
summit of Rainier: "Yonder lies Seattle.
She will be n great city, because she is the
gateway to Alaska. There to the south is
Tncoma. destined to n good development,
though her lumber is her chief reliance, out
yonder, farther still to the south, beyond
the gleaming glory of Mt, Hood, lies Port
laud, with her combined advantages of loca
tion, climate nud soil, and she is destined to
he the leader of them nil the crowned
queen of the great Northwest! Within a
few generations she will have a population
of a million souls, She will he, indeed, 'The
New York of the Pacific." Her great trunk
lines will pour into her lap the boundless
treasures of her matchless territory; white
winged ships nnd throbbing steamers will
hear her bounties out to every part of the
earth; intellectual growth and spiritual
progress will go hand in hand with her
material development, and through it nil
her happy children will laugh and labor and
love and die among their roses."
Ah, that picture! how inspiring! If we
who love Portland and believe in her su
premacy have ever murmured because at
times she may seem too conservative, let us
murmur no more. If dwellers on the At
lantic seaboard can paint such pictures of
our future, and paint them in colors of
unlading beauty and imperishable truth, it
becomes us to look away from passing dis
couragements nnd, petty annoyances that
must need be betimes, and take a more
exalted and more worthy view of Port
laud's destiny, Let us climb to the moun
tain top more frequently, where new cour
age and new hope ever await us. Ah, that
picture! A city of a million souls, where
"white-winged ships and throbbing steam
ers" come and go, telling the anxious na
tions of the world of tlie "crowned queen of
the great Northwest," tlie City lleautifull
"Like the raptures of some pleasant dream
Whose sweets are imaged In tlie sleeper's
mind,
M y memory shall retain this view supreme,
When tottering age has every joy re
signed, Except God's love upon tiiy soul en
shrined." PENINSULA POINTERS.
Hy W. J. Ifddiconl
Many churchcs-ON THE PENINSULA.
Many large schools-ON THE PENIN
SULA. Many beautiful homes ON THE PEN
INSULA. Many industrics-ON THE PENIN
SULA, Two banks-ON THE PENINSULA.
A college-ON THE PENINSULA.
Will soon have a $250,000 High School
ON THE PENINSULA.
Many, many factory sites ON THE
PENINSULA.
thousands of sites for elegant homes
ON THE PENINSULA.
Two railroad-junction townsites ON
THE PENINSULA.
A small but beautiful nark (30a) ON
THE PENINSULA.
Hull Run water ON THE PENIN
SULA.
Electric lights and splendid car service
ON THE PENINSULA.
More than a dozen streets and boulrvanla
from 80 to too feet wide ON THE PEN
INSULA. Many beautiful landscapes ON THE
PENINSULA.
Many beautiful roses ON THE PENIN
SULA.
Many beautiful girls ON THE PENIN.
SULA.
Come and see our fine beemmntrs ON
THE PENINSULA.
Come and help us ON THE PENIN.
SULA.
Come and set helped ON THE PEN.
INSULA.
Stranger, come with eyes open for what
wc have done where not many years ago
was .1 wilderness of giant firs, nnd you will
now sec evidences of prosperity nnd great
promise. Come with your eyes open for
what wc need and you will see the opportu
nities of vour life.
The following is what Dr. Straton would
have us say of Portland nnd The Peninsula:
The 1'cninsula "Oown-urade from livcry-
where."
Truth in Parenthesis.
"Commerce In our country breaks away
from the great dividing wall the Rocky
Mountains and flows cast and west along
the lines of least reslstence. Apart from
the Mississippi Valley in the cast (the Sac
ramento and Frascr in the west), it moves
nrcv.illinclv alone the line of the Great
Lakes (the rivers of the Inland Empire),
through the Mohawk (Snake River) Valley
to the valley of the Hudson (Columbia,
nnd down that river to New York (Portland).
Hence the New York of today (Portland of
the futnrc). The traffic could not go to
Hoston (Seattle) without crossing the (.ats
kllU f CruraMrsl. nor could it no to Phila
delphia (Tncoma) without expensive grades,
so It went to New York (will come to Port
land) along the lines of least resistcncc."
From Dr. Straton's $1,000 prize essay,
with our interpretation according to the
doctor s meaning.
GREATER PORTLAND
nV D. N. llVISRI.ItK.
Portland has been aptly called the "New
York of the Pacific.' Situated just far
enough from the ocean to have a fresh
water harbor, yet near enough to secure nil
the benefits derived from n salt water port.
With deep water, landlocked from the ocean
storms, where a tow-string will he suffi
cient to hold n vessel at anchor, and where
the ocean vessels can come up to her docks
without resorting to the dredge to deepen
the channel, make it the most desirable port
on the l'acific, nnd sen-faring men arc tic
liuhtcd when thev nrc bound for her docks.
Portland has also been rightly called the
"City Beautiful." Nowhere In the nation
can be found another city with more octm
1 1 fill homes, or where the nconlc take
greater pride in their environments than in
Portland. Every home, from the modest
cottage of the laborer to the palatial resi
dence of the millionaire, is surrounded with
beautiful flowers, clinging vines, well
trimmed lawns, carefully trained shrubbery
everything to delight the eye and rest tlie
iniiiil. nnd In this scmi-tronical climate nil
vegetation reaches the highest degree of
pcrtcction. it is 1101 surprising, men, uini
visitors nrc captivated with the beauty nud
loveliness of Portland. Added to this arti
ficial adornment which man is placing about
his home here, Mother Nature has dealt
with a lavish baud in ornamenting the en
vironments of Portland. Surrounded by the
most beautiful evergreen hills, which are
watered by trickling brooks nnd sparkling
snrinus. with the 11 acid wntcrs of the beau
llful Willamette flowing like the River of
Life through the midst of it, the grandest
of snowy mountain tops ever in view from
nil parts of the city, the blue hills of the
distance stretching away to the snowy lim
its, nil combine to make one of tlie most
fasclnnthiir pictures, one of the loveliest
scenes ever spread upon the canvas of
Mother Earth.
What Portland is In her physical, natural
surroumlimts. she is also in the commercial
nud financial world the Queen of the
Pacific. There is tint another city in the
entire country so favorably situnted, or
that is progressing and prospering to such
n high degree. The vessels of nil nations
tic up nt her door. Their enrgoes bring of
I lie ricncs 01 every uniiuu uu uic cum mm
pour them into her lap. The arteries of
commerce, the great trunk-lines, extend
ing from the far Atlantic, deposit their
great gatherings of export Into her docks
nnd make this the greatest export station
on the Pacific. During the past year Port
land's wheat export exceeds that of all
other Pacific ports combined, and is second
only to the port of New York as an export
station. As she is in commerce nnd finance
so is she in literature, the fine nrts, religion,
fraternity, education. There is no city in
tlie East that surpasses Portland's educa
tional facilities, except, perhaps. Cam
bridge with its Harvard university, patron
ized by the world. Here, too, arc located
houses of worship for every people on the
earth from the little hut of some obscure
sect to the richest cathedral of the Catholics
or synagogue of the Jew.
Not like her namesake, the New York
of the Atlantic, is rortland; for there are
no limits to her expansion in any direction.
There is room for a second London where
Port and sits among her evercrecn hills.
The first and greatest growth of tlie old
city will he down the 1'eninsula, a great
plateau between the beautiful Willamette
on the one side and the majestic Columbia
on the other. On this vast stretch of coun
try, smooth as a garden, gently sloping
from the center toward the two rivers, thus
giving perfect surface drainage, is room for
a million homes; while all around the entire
rim of the 1'eninsula are most desirable
sites for countless milts, factories, ware
houses and docks. This is the first point
in Portland touched by the great trunk
lines. It is here that in time will be depos
ited the wealth of export from the great
Inland Empire. Already has a great de
velopment been started in this territory.
St. Johns, on the end of the Peninsula, from
n little hamlet of 200 or 300 souls, after a
quarter of a century, with but one little mill,
has grown in the last three years to a city
of s.noo, with mills and factories of all
kinds too numerous to mention in this brief
article: and there is room for hundreds
more factories, mills, merchandising houses
and thousands of beautiful homes.
East of St. Johns proper is East. St. Johns
and Maegly Junction, where the North flank
road crosses the U. K. & N. "licit Line
that follows the water front around the
end of the Peninsula. At this junction J. J.
Hill and his company have been making
most expensive improvements, which can
only be realized by personal visit, no de
scription would be comprehensible. Still
east and on the bank of the Columbia, the
Swift Packing Company is erecting their
$3,000,000 plant, ont building of which is
to be seven stories high and each floor to
cover four acres of surface, making 28 acres
of floor space for this one structure.
South of tlie packing plant. will be built
the packing town of Kenton, to house the
employes of the plant. Coming on up the
Peninsula are suburban villas of Ports
mouth, University Park, where is located
the Columbia University; Peninsula Saw
Mill, with its 300 employes; McKenna Junc
tion, laid out for a large city; North Alblna.
with its big shops; Piedmont, Walnut Park,
Woodlawn, Peninsular Station, with their
beautiful homes, lovely streets and drives.
all so ctosely budded as to almost make a
solid city lor the entire distance. Skirting
the entire Peninsula is a broad boulevard
100 feet wide, making a beautiful course for
the motor car or the high-bred trotter.
Leading from 1'ortland proper out to this
delightful home section are three great ave
nuesUnion, Williams and Mississippi ave
nuesover which is given the citizens the
best car service of any city in the West.
From all these centers of population to the
heart of the old city there Is ordinarily a
20-minute service, and, on special occa
sions, there is a 10-mimite service, with the
best of equipment and most genial and gen
tlemanly employes; in fact, this section has
the reputation of having the best car ser
vice of any In the city.
What does this mean to the Iiomcsccker
and Investor? It means to the first an
ideal place to make a home in the heart of
what will, witmn n tew years, occomc in
greatest and best part of the greatest and
best city on the Pacific Coast. It means
that he can make a home here now at a
very small cost compared with the ex
pense of making the same kind of a home a
decade hence. To the investor it means
much more. At present he can secure, at
comparatively small cost, locations for
mills, factories, warehouses, commercial
blocks, where n few years hence it will
cost him a million to obtain. Doth the
Iiomcsccker and the investor have begun to
take advantage of these conditions, as is
attested by the numerous industries already
established from the Peninsula Mill to the
oil tanks situated along the west side of
the Peninsula, with their hundreds of em
ployes, and by the thousands of lovely
nomcs mat nave nccu mini aioug mc ave
nue .inil boulevards. All this. too. within
the short space of five years. At this rate,
and the speed will accelerate like that of
a stone rolling down hill, so that within
another decade St. Johns will be n city of
60,000, and become nn extension of waru
No. 10, a part of Portland proper, will
spread with these other villas until the
entire peninsula will be one vast hive of
busy, happy, healthy, thrifty people.
It is a law of nature that a force will
move in the line of least resistance, nnd this
law holds In the building of a city ns well
as In the building of a mountain or a rail
road. The logical nnd natural course for
the development of the city of Portland is
down the Peninsula, because n home here
may be made nt half the expense of the
same kind of a home on "The Heights" to
the west nnd south of the city; nnd here the
finest shipping facilities will be placed nt
the minimum of cost, n 000-foot dock being
now under construction by the city of St.
Johns which will connect the Peninsula to
the outside world by both laud and sea.
With nil these favorable circumstances
contributing to the making of nn ideal
dwelling place, can the Iiomcsccker nsk for
anything more? Can the manufacturer or
investor seek further? Wc think not.
Therefore, wc extend n most hearty Invita
tion to every honest man to come and be
one of us. You will meet with the glad
hand. Nowhere in the world will you meet
with a more genial nnd kindly welcome.
Lome with us and wc will do you good.
PENINSULA PORTLAND
IIV J. J. WAI,TI!H.
Saul of Tarsus, standing in the midst of
a rabble just outside of the gates of the
icwtsn temple nt Jerusalem, from which he
iad been ruthlessly expelled b'v reliuious
fanatics, accused of helm? n Grecian leader
01 sedition, made reply to the chief captain
of the guard: "I am a man which am n
Jew of Inrsus, n city in Cilicia, n citizen
of no mean city, and 1 beseech thee to suf
fer me to sneak unto the nconlc." So I
would say, boastingly, "I am n citizen of
Portland, n citizen of no mean city; suffer
mc 10 speak unto tnc people. ' And what
1 am to say in tins brief write-up I am sure
will he heartily seconded by more than
200,000 of loyal, boastful citizc
Rose City.
Come with me to the summit of Council
Crest, and, after filling vour limes with
the purest nir God ever sent sweeping over
the face of the earth, look around vou. The
greatest architect of Europe, Christopher
Wren, lias no expensive monument to per-
petuate his memory; but, upon n simple
tamer, mint 111 the walls of one or his
splendid creations, may he read his name
with this inscription: "Do you seek his
monument, look around you.'' I am stand
ing by your side and I propose to boast
and boost my adopted city, nnd, ns an apol
ogy for my boasting and boosting I say
wiui n sweep 01 my arm, "look around
youl"
A stranger in Portland might conclude
that Portland had no back door yard, that
the emerald hills west of her business cen
ter marked the boundaries of her growth
toward tlie scttinc sun: hut. sinmllnc nn
this vantage ground, you discover that Port
land s back door yard is as beautiful and
almost as expansive as her front door van!;
that even now her population is luml. liner
over uic crest mid spreading itself out over
mc ciiarnung valley that stretches away
tnit-nr,! tl U'l
Then southward nlong both sides of the
beautiful Willamette River, Portland is
building her homes by the thousands nnd
factories by the scores. So to the south
east up to and beyond Mount Scott, six
miles away, and to the east. 11 n tn ami be.
yond Mount Tabor, three miles away
niiiiosi a sonu city meets the eye, will
Mount Hood nnd the Cascade ranue form
ing a most entrancing backcrouml to iMt
charming panorama.
Hut, you must take one more view this
view toward the northeast and north. Wc
will call this a view of Peninsula Portland
I need not tell you where the greatest
growth of Portland is today, the naked eye
will show that in this territory, flanked by
mc '(.oiiimuu uivcr on tnc north and the
Willamette on the south and west that three
new houses arc being erected to one in
any other direction named.
I Wish to Call VOtir attention to three rnn.
ditions which are found in this nart of the
l city that make this one of the most desira
ble parts of rortland for homes: The first
item is drainage. Not only is this part of
Portland easy of artificial drainage, but the
subterranean drainage of this entire Penin
sula Portland is perfect, as gravel and sand
are found at all points from three to twenty
feet below the surface.
The second item I name Is ventilation.
There is no spot in all the environments of
Portland where the ventilation is so good
as it is in this territory. Here the breezes
from the ocean, coming up the Columbia
River, so modify the heat of the Summer
that this writer has often noted a difference
of five or ten degrees between Peninsula
rortland and the downtown territory.
1 lie third item is "view." In no other
territory of Portland (unless vou climb
some hill) can anyone find so enchanting
views of snow-capped peaks, emerald hills
and river scenery.
My space forbids me boastincr extensively
of the finest high school building in the
State of Oregon, to be erected on Peninsula
Portland, the bonds for which, to the
amount of $250,000, have already been voted
and issued.
I must mention the vast shinnine facilities
that, in the near future, will cluster along
the north boundary of this Peninsula, where
Nature has placed at our disposal miles nf
deep water channels running in many direc
tions from the main Columbia River chan
nel. These channels are even now being
prepared for the coming commerce of Pen
insula Portland.
One more boast and I have done. Port.
land leads the world as rltv nf
home owners. Tins is particularly true of
Peninsula Portland. The census of, New
ork City shows that 05 per cent of her
inhabitants are living in rented houses; 95
per cent of Boston's inhabitants pay tribute
to landlords: 85 per Cent of the nrnnl nf
San Francisco arc renters, while 07 per cent
of the people of Peninsula Portland own
the houses they live in. If any doubt still
haunts your mind, dear reader, and von are
inclined to say "hot air," or, in the language
of Holy Writ. "Behold, he filleth his belly
with the east wind." mv answer u Cnm
and See,
J. K. KILKENNY O. L. BITS
St. Johns
Electric Works
203 South Jersey St.
Wc don't solicit plumbing,
tlnnincT nr pnrnpntpr work or
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any other line not pertaining
i ,1. T?1 l.l 1 Tl..!.
THAT ISN'T ALL
Wc nrc not running a ctirb-
stone Ulcctricnl Business. Our
way of doing busiucss is legit
imate. Motors and Dynamos sold
and repaired; Fixtures and
Supplies; House Wiring.
BUILDERS
HARDWARE I
As well ns the other
kinds of Hardware is
OUR HOBBY i
p
Wc nrc making the hard
ware business our study, nud
it's not how cheap weean buy
but how good, mid wc must
have the qunlity.
Our Universal Stoves and
Rn tines nrc ns good ns (he
llfiST mntlo.
n.iiut
'
Acme qunlity kind.
Hendricks Hardware f
COMPANY.
No. 111 Ilurliugtoii street
TIAIE TABI.R 0. R. & N.
Union Dc)t, rortland.
No. a Chlcngo Spcelnl Kav fJ.joa. m.
No. 4 Spoknuc 1'lycr lenvrs t 7 o p. in.
No. 0 KniiMS City Exp. leaves 7-o p. ui..
No. 8 I.ocnl I'nitctigcr leaves 0:00 n. in.
No. I Chicago Siiccint arrives 8:20 p. 111.
tso, i KiKikituc l'lycr arrives at :oo n. tit,
No, 5 Kansas City Hxp. arrives 9,45 u, tn.
No. 7 Local Passenger arrives 5:43 p. tn.
N
St. Johns Ferry Time Card.
Leave East Side (A. M.) 6:30, 7:10,
8:00, 9XX), 10:00, 11:00, 11:00 M. V. Si.
1:00, a:oo, y.vo, 4:00, 4:30, 5:30, 6:jo.
Leave West Side (A. M.J 6:50, 7:35,
8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30. 1'. M. 13:30,
HIP, a:jo. Jtto. A'-jQ, 5!o( 6:00, 6:30.
Ainll Schedule
Mall arrives nt St. Johns at 7:10 n, in.
and 1:13 p. 111.
Leaves nt 10:20 n. in., nud 4:45 p. in.
Office open week days from 6:45
to 6:10 p. m. Sundays from 9 to 10 a. m
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
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vertisement tho copy for such change
should reach this office not later than
Wednesday, at 3 o'clock p. m. Plaatc
remember this and aavc tha prlnUr
Plant an ad. in
The
St. Johns Review
and
watch your business
grow.
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